World through the aperture

A car drives along a five-kilometer-long road that connects the banks of the ice-covered Yenisei River during winter season, south of Krasnoyarsk, Russia, on March 3, 2019. (Photo by Reuters)

A selection of photos shot recently from around the world:

A car sits beneath broken branches that fell on it during a snow storm in upper Manhattan in New York City, New York, the US, on March 4, 2019. (Photo by Reuters)A helicopter makes its way to drop water as fires rage in Posada, in the northern Spanish region of Asturias, on March 5, 2019. (Photo by AFP)Boats tethered at the Sangam, the confluence of sacred rivers the Yamuna, the Ganges, and the mythical Saraswati, as devotees take holy dips on the auspicious day of Maha Shivratri during the last day of Kumbh Mela or the Pitcher Festival, in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh State, India, Monday, March 4, 2019. (Photo by AP)People dressed as penguins play at a playground on the "Rosenmontag" (Rose Monday) in Cologne, Germany, on March 4, 2019. (Photo by Reuters)Marley Kanda and her son Genja, 5, sled down a hill by the Bunker Hill Monument after a snowstorm dumped around 15 inches of snow around the Greater Boston area in Charlestown, Massachusets, the US, on March 4, 2019. (Photo by AFP)People wearing protective helmets and costumes throw and are hit by oranges as part of Carnival celebrations in the northern Italian Piedmont town of Ivrea, on Monday, March 4, 2019. (Photo by AP)A child takes part in the annual block party known as "Boitata," during Carnival festivities in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on March 3, 2019. (Photo by Reuters)A Chinese military band conductor rehearses before the opening session of the annual National People's Congress in Beijing's Great Hall of the People, China, on March 5, 2019. (Photo by AP)A man walks past burning tires and one of the caskets of victims of anti-government protests, placed in the street by relatives and fellow demonstrators, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on March 4, 2019. (Photo by Reuters)